RE: How to Prove Your Own Position without Trying Very Hard
July 13, 2015 at 2:38 am
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2015 at 2:45 am by Kaninchen.)
(July 12, 2015 at 4:36 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: 1. Start a thread by inserting an absurd quote from one individual from the Other Side. Linking to a news item from an obscure website also works.
2. Make broad sweeping generalizations about EVERYONE on the Other Side based on the single example cited in Step 1.
3. Express outrage, disbelief or both at the beliefs and actions of the Other Side cited in Step 1.
4. Use foul-language to show that you're all grown up now and that YOU'RE REALLY SERIOUS about not liking the Other Side cited in Step 1.
5. Follow up with obligatory YouTube videos and/or memes mocking the Other Side.
6. Yuck it up with anyone from Your Side who also posts mocking the Other Side using steps 2, 3, 4 or 5.
7. Congratulate yourself and others for really having given the Other Side what for.
8. Thank God that you are not on the Other Side. Oh, wait...
Repeat Steps 1-7 daily to avoid actually thinking about what the Other Side is saying. (And joining them.)
Or, you can, inter alia:
1 blitz a forum with lots of copying and pasting;
2 deal with disagreement by saying the same thing over and over but louder;
3 patronise, patronise, patronise;
4 congratulate yourself whenever possible; and, of course,
5 run to the moderator for cover.
How's the shooting fish in a barrel going, Randy?
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
